Physics HL

Expert's Insight: "A REAL 6-CREDIT BOOST: BUT WATCH FOR THE ENGINEERING & PHYSICS-MAJOR 'NO-SKIP' TRAP" The Good News (what UBC officially grants) If you score a 6 or 7 in IB Physics HL, UBC Vancouver grants PHYS 100 (3 credits) plus PHYS 1st-year level (3 credits), and lists you as exempt from PHYS 101. This is ...

Expert's Insight: IB Physics HL can be a real advantage at the University of Alberta, but only if you treat it as strategic placement, not a free pass to skip everything. The credit you receive is generous (two full courses), but the value depends entirely on which physics stream your program actually uses. IB Physic...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take McGill grants 8 credits for IB Physics HL (score of 5+), exempting you from both PHYS 101 and PHYS 102. This is McGill's non-calculus introductory physics sequence. For most faculties this is generous and straightforward, but if you're heading into a Physics major or Engineering, the i...

Expert's Insight: That 5 gets you out of PHY 1121 and 1122, but the first-year labs at uOttawa are a different beast. Your IA was a practice run; their grading is the real, unforgiving exam.

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns two named course equivalencies at USask, not generic junior credit. The award of PHYS 115.3 and PHYS 117.3 is editorially significant: both are specific, named first-year courses rather than unspecified physics credit, which means they appear on your transcript with...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns a named 1.0 FCE at UTSG and UTM, with Yes across all three restriction columns. UTSC awards the same credit volume but blocks it from every program pathway, because all physics programs there require calculus-based prerequisites that IB Physics alone cannot satisfy....

Expert's Insight: McMaster's official IB equivalency table lists Physics HL as Physics 1A03 and 1AA3, with the general IB policy requiring a final HL score of 5 or higher. That is the starting point for every applicant. What actually lands on your transcript depends on the faculty you are admitted to, because two of ...

Expert's Insight: Waterloo's PHYS 111/121 sequence is a different beast than IB Physics HL. Your 5 means you start from scratch, and the first-year labs are designed to be a reality check.

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns Western’s calculus-based enriched physics sequence — not a generic credit. The award maps directly to Physics 1501A (Enriched Introductory Physics I) and Physics 1502B (Enriched Introductory Physics II). Together, the Western Academic Calendar notes this...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Guelph awards Physics HL (5+) as PHYS*9110, a generic (unspecified) transfer credit rather than a named equivalency to any first-year Guelph physics course. The leading “9” in the course code signals a placeholder, which shapes how the credit behaves on your transcript and ...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Two separate 3.0-credit course exclusions at York: SC/PHYS 1411 Physics Fundamentals 1 and SC/PHYS 1412 Physics Fundamentals 2. Each is described in York's handbook as "One term. Three credits," and together they cover a calculus-based survey of mechanics, waves, electricity and magnet...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Queen's awards PHYS 117 (6.0 units) for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher, in every faculty except Smith Engineering, which grants no credit. PHYS 117 is a full-year, algebra-based introductory physics course that includes a lab component. It satisfies the physics requirement f...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Queen's awards PHYS 117 (6.0 units) for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher, in every faculty except Smith Engineering, which grants no credit. PHYS 117 is a full-year, algebra-based introductory physics course that includes a lab component. It satisfies the physics requirement f...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Queen's awards PHYS 117 (6.0 units) for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher, in every faculty except Smith Engineering, which grants no credit. PHYS 117 is a full-year, algebra-based introductory physics course that includes a lab component. It satisfies the physics requirement f...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns PHYS 117 (6.0 units) across most faculties, but this is the algebra-based introductory sequence, not the calculus-based PHYS 104/106 that any student pursuing a Physics degree plan actually needs. The credit is real and non-trivial in Arts, Science, Commerce, and Nu...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take SFU grants PHYS 101 (3) and PHYS 102 (3) for IB Physics HL — 6 credits total, typically carrying Q/B-Sci designations. This clears the entire introductory physics sequence for life sciences students and satisfies both a quantitative and breadth-science requirement toward SFU's WQ...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns a real, named credit at UVic, but the specific courses awarded are the algebra-based, life sciences physics stream, not the calculus-based sequence required by most science and engineering programs. With a score of 6 or higher, UVic's official IB Transfer Guide gran...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL yields a full two-course first-year physics sequence used across many UCalgary science programs, not a single course, but two. A score of 5 or higher earns named credit for both PHYS 221 (Mechanics) and PHYS 223 (Electromagnetism and Thermal Physics) , 3 units each, 6 uni...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Dalhousie's IB transfer credit table awards Physics 1280.03 and Physics 1290.03 for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher. That is a two-course, 6-credit-hour award covering Dalhousie's first-year introductory physics package. For context, the standard first-year physics path for s...

Expert's Insight: Carleton awards IB Physics HL (minimum score 5) as PHYS 1107 (0.5) and PHYS 1108 (0.5), per the official IB advanced-standing table. The sharper question for STEM-bound students is whether those two awarded courses match what your degree actually requires, because PHYS 1107 and PHYS 1108 sit in a di...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL with a minimum score of 4 is awarded as Physics 1020 plus Physics 1021 (six credit hours), the algebra-based first-year sequence at Memorial (official IB transfer credit chart). The award is automatic once the IB transcript is received; what matters is whether the algebra...